Improvement in cigar-holders



C. BRINKER. Cigar-Holders.

No. 195,973. Patented Oct. 9, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,973, dated October 9, 1877; application filed September 3, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES BRINKER, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Holders, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of cigar-holders in which the cigar is carried by a tube, provided with devices for retaining the cigar and permitting the passage of smoke into the tube, and with a receptacle for the nicotine; the object of my invention being to so construct a holder of this class that the cigar will be firmly retained on the same, and prevented from being twisted off, and so that the cigar may be almost entirely consumed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved cigar-holder; Fig. 2, a side view of the same, partly in section; and Fig. 3, an enlarged view on the line 1 2, Fig. 2.

A is the tube, provided at the inner end with a mouth-piece, a, and bent downward at the outer end,where it terminates in a bulb, b, preferably made in two parts, screwed together,

so that it maybe taken apart and emptied when desired.

From the top of the tube A, near the outer bent end of the same, extends a perforated tubular projection, d, the opening in which communicates with the interior of the tube A, the upper end of this projection d being pointed, so that it will readily pierce the body of the cigar. To the tip or point of the cigar is adapted a ring or socket, e, which is carried by a ring, f, the latter being adapted to and arranged to slide on the tube A, and having at the bottom an extension adapted to a 1011- gitudinal rib, 1', formed on, or secured to, the under side of the said tube.

In applying the cigar to the holder, the pointed projection is first inserted into the body of the same, and the socket 0 then moved forward, so as to confine the tip of the cigar, which will then be firmly held on the tube A, the rib i on the bottom of the same preventing the ring f from turning on the tube, and thus twisting the cigar oif of the projection 11.

When a partial vacuum is created in the tube A, smoke enters the same through the perforated tubular projection d, and passes into the mouth of the smoker, the saliva and nicotine, separated from the smoke in its passage through the tube, passing into the receptacle 1) at the bent end of the same, from which they may be removed from time to time.

When the cigar is consmned up to a point close to the projection d, it is removed and replaced in a more advanced position,the socket 6 being moved forward to a corresponding extent. As the socket is adapted to the extreme tip of the cigar, the latter may be moved forward until it is almost entirely consumed, thereby overcoming an objection to the use of a retaining-ring, which embraces the body of the cigar. Such a ring may, however, be used, if desired.

The receptacle 1) need not necessarily be placed in the position shown in the drawing. It may, for instance, be connected to, or formed on, the tube A at a point immediately beneath the projection d.

I claim as my invention-- The combination, in a cigar-holder, of the tube A, its projection d, receptacle 1), and rib i, with the'ring f adapted to the tube and its rib, and carrying a socket or ring adapted to the cigar, all substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES BRINKER.

Witnesses:

HARRY A. CRAWFORD, HARRY SMITH. 

